diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 225cfcee..07b96197 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## UNRELEASED
 
+### Bug Fixes
+- `Cursor.executemany` now correctly resets `rowcount` and reports the number of inserted rows after a bulk insert. Previously, `rowcount` retained the value from the previous operation. The insert summary is also appended to `cursor.summary`, consistent with the non-bulk path. In addition, passing a generator as `seq_of_parameters` no longer raises `TypeError`; the bulk-insert optimisation is now skipped for non-indexable iterables and the operation falls through to the row-by-row path as PEP 249 requires.
+
 ### Improvements
 - The Cython extension modules now declare free-threading compatibility, so importing clickhouse-connect on a free-threaded Python build such as 3.14t no longer silently re-enables the GIL. As part of this change, `ResponseBuffer.read_uint64` no longer uses a module level scratch buffer for its big-endian byte swap, which was the one piece of shared mutable state in the C modules. Building from source now requires Cython 3.1 or later. The CI test matrix now runs the full suite on free-threaded Python 3.14t as a non-blocking job. Free-threading support remains experimental.
 
diff --git a/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/__init__.py b/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/__init__.py
index 84a9a8c3..f1c33a75 100644
--- a/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/__init__.py
+++ b/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from typing import Any
+
 from clickhouse_connect.dbapi.connection import Connection
 
 apilevel = "2.0"  # PEP 249  DB API level
@@ -12,18 +14,18 @@ class Error(Exception):
 def connect(
     host: str | None = None,
     database: str | None = None,
-    username: str | None = "",
-    password: str | None = "",
+    username: str = "",
+    password: str = "",
     port: int | None = None,
-    **kwargs,
-):
+    **kwargs: Any,
+) -> Connection:
     secure = kwargs.pop("secure", False)
     return Connection(
         host=host,
         database=database,
         username=username,
         password=password,
-        port=port,
+        port=port if port is not None else 0,
         secure=secure,
         **kwargs,
     )
diff --git a/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/connection.py b/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/connection.py
index 3dba3c54..80c2c538 100644
--- a/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/connection.py
+++ b/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/connection.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from typing import Any
+
 from clickhouse_connect.dbapi.cursor import Cursor
 from clickhouse_connect.driver import create_client
 from clickhouse_connect.driver.query import QueryResult
@@ -10,21 +12,21 @@ class Connection:
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        dsn: str = None,
+        dsn: str | None = None,
         username: str = "",
         password: str = "",
-        host: str = None,
-        database: str = None,
-        interface: str = None,
+        host: str | None = None,
+        database: str | None = None,
+        interface: str | None = None,
         port: int = 0,
         secure: bool | str = False,
-        **kwargs,
+        **kwargs: Any,
     ):
         self.client = create_client(
             host=host,
             username=username,
             password=password,
-            database=database,
+            database=database if database is not None else "__default__",
             interface=interface,
             port=port,
             secure=secure,
@@ -35,20 +37,20 @@ def __init__(
         self.client._add_integration_tag("sqlalchemy")
         self.timezone = self.client.server_tz
 
-    def close(self):
+    def close(self) -> None:
         self.client.close()
 
-    def commit(self):
+    def commit(self) -> None:
         pass
 
-    def rollback(self):
+    def rollback(self) -> None:
         pass
 
-    def command(self, cmd: str):
+    def command(self, cmd: str) -> Any:
         return self.client.command(cmd)
 
     def raw_query(self, query: str) -> QueryResult:
         return self.client.query(query)
 
-    def cursor(self):
+    def cursor(self) -> Cursor:
         return Cursor(self.client)
diff --git a/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/cursor.py b/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/cursor.py
index af7f36f6..9b200aba 100644
--- a/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/cursor.py
+++ b/clickhouse_connect/dbapi/cursor.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 import re
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
+from typing import Any, cast
 
 from clickhouse_connect.datatypes.registry import get_from_name
 from clickhouse_connect.driver import Client
@@ -23,34 +24,34 @@ class Cursor:
 
     def __init__(self, client: Client):
         self.client = client
-        self.arraysize = 1
+        self.arraysize: int = 1
         self.data: Sequence | None = None
-        self.names = []
-        self.types = []
-        self._rowcount = 0
-        self._summary: list[dict[str, str]] = []
-        self._ix = 0
+        self.names: Sequence[str] = []
+        self.types: Sequence[Any] = []
+        self._rowcount: int = 0
+        self._summary: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+        self._ix: int = 0
 
-    def check_valid(self):
+    def check_valid(self) -> None:
         if self.data is None:
             raise ProgrammingError("Cursor is not valid")
 
     @property
-    def description(self):
+    def description(self) -> list[tuple[str, Any, None, None, None, None, bool]]:
         return [(n, t, None, None, None, None, True) for n, t in zip(self.names, self.types)]
 
     @property
-    def rowcount(self):
+    def rowcount(self) -> int:
         return self._rowcount
 
     @property
-    def summary(self) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
+    def summary(self) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
         return self._summary
 
-    def close(self):
+    def close(self) -> None:
         self.data = None
 
-    def execute(self, operation: str, parameters=None):
+    def execute(self, operation: str, parameters: Any = None) -> None:
         if not parameters and isinstance(operation, str):
             # Per PEP 249 pyformat paramstyle, callers (e.g. SQLAlchemy) escape
             # literal percent signs as %% in operation strings.  When there are
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ def execute(self, operation: str, parameters=None):
                     self.names = meta_result.column_names
                     self.types = [x.name for x in meta_result.column_types]
 
-    def _try_bulk_insert(self, operation: str, data):
+    def _try_bulk_insert(self, operation: str, data: Any) -> bool:
         match = insert_re.match(remove_sql_comments(operation))
         if not match:
             return False
@@ -94,24 +95,31 @@ def _try_bulk_insert(self, operation: str, data):
             op_columns = None
         if "VALUES" not in temp.upper():
             return False
+        if not isinstance(data, Sequence) or len(data) == 0:
+            return False
         first_row = data[0]
+        col_names: list[str] | str
+        data_values: Sequence[Sequence[Any]]
         if isinstance(first_row, Mapping):
-            col_names = list(first_row.keys())
-            if op_columns and {unescape_identifier(x) for x in op_columns} != set(col_names):
+            col_names = [str(k) for k in first_row.keys()]
+            if op_columns and {unescape_identifier(str(x)) for x in op_columns} != set(col_names):
                 return False  # Data sent in doesn't match the columns in the insert statement
             data_values = [list(row.values()) for row in data]
         elif isinstance(first_row, Sequence) and not isinstance(first_row, (str, bytes)):
             # PEP 249 also allows rows as sequences; take column names from the
             # insert statement if present, otherwise insert into all columns
-            col_names = [unescape_identifier(x) for x in op_columns] if op_columns else "*"
+            col_names = [unescape_identifier(str(x)) for x in op_columns] if op_columns else "*"
             data_values = data
         else:
             return False
-        self.client.insert(table, data_values, col_names)
+        insert_summary = self.client.insert(table, data_values, col_names)
         self.data = []
+        self._rowcount = insert_summary.written_rows
+        self._ix = 0
+        self._summary.append(insert_summary.summary)
         return True
 
-    def executemany(self, operation, parameters):
+    def executemany(self, operation: str, parameters: Any) -> None:
         if not parameters or self._try_bulk_insert(operation, parameters):
             return
         self.data = []
@@ -138,22 +146,25 @@ def executemany(self, operation, parameters):
         # Need to reset cursor _ix after performing an execute
         self._ix = 0
 
-    def fetchall(self):
+    def fetchall(self) -> Sequence:
         self.check_valid()
-        ret = self.data[self._ix :]
+        data = cast(Sequence, self.data)
+        ret = data[self._ix :]
         self._ix = self._rowcount
         return ret
 
-    def fetchone(self):
+    def fetchone(self) -> Any:
         self.check_valid()
         if self._ix >= self._rowcount:
             return None
-        val = self.data[self._ix]
+        data = cast(Sequence, self.data)
+        val = data[self._ix]
         self._ix += 1
         return val
 
-    def fetchmany(self, size: int = -1):
+    def fetchmany(self, size: int = -1) -> Sequence:
         self.check_valid()
+        data = cast(Sequence, self.data)
 
         if size < 0:
             # Fetch all remaining rows
@@ -163,12 +174,12 @@ def fetchmany(self, size: int = -1):
             return []
 
         end = min(self._ix + size, self._rowcount)
-        ret = self.data[self._ix : end]
+        ret = data[self._ix : end]
         self._ix = end
         return ret
 
-    def nextset(self):
+    def nextset(self) -> None:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def callproc(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def callproc(self, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
         raise NotImplementedError
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 83a45132..63c4f807 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ module = [
     "clickhouse_connect.datatypes.string",
     "clickhouse_connect.datatypes.temporal",
     "clickhouse_connect.datatypes.vector",
-    "clickhouse_connect.dbapi",
-    "clickhouse_connect.dbapi.connection",
-    "clickhouse_connect.dbapi.cursor",
     "clickhouse_connect.driver",
     "clickhouse_connect.driver.asyncclient",
     "clickhouse_connect.driver.asyncqueue",
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests/test_driver/test_cursor.py b/tests/unit_tests/test_driver/test_cursor.py
index d427d7ed..9999b7e3 100644
--- a/tests/unit_tests/test_driver/test_cursor.py
+++ b/tests/unit_tests/test_driver/test_cursor.py
@@ -360,3 +360,53 @@ def test_execute_empty_with_query_fetches_metadata():
         "SELECT * FROM (WITH value_1 AS 13 SELECT value_1 WHERE value_1 = 79) LIMIT 0",
         None,
     )
+
+
+def _mock_insert_client(written_rows: int, summary_extra: dict | None = None):
+    """Return a mock client whose insert() returns a QuerySummary-like object."""
+    summary_dict = {"written_rows": str(written_rows), **(summary_extra or {})}
+    insert_summary = Mock()
+    insert_summary.written_rows = written_rows
+    insert_summary.summary = summary_dict
+    client = Mock()
+    client.insert.return_value = insert_summary
+    return client, summary_dict
+
+
+def test_executemany_bulk_insert_rowcount_equals_written_rows():
+    """rowcount after a bulk executemany reflects the actual number of inserted rows."""
+    client, _ = _mock_insert_client(written_rows=2)
+    cursor = Cursor(client)
+
+    rows = [(13, "user_1"), (79, "user_2")]
+    cursor.executemany("INSERT INTO test_table (id, name) VALUES (%s, %s)", rows)
+
+    assert cursor.rowcount == 2
+
+
+def test_executemany_bulk_insert_appends_summary():
+    """summary is populated from the insert response after a bulk executemany."""
+    client, summary_dict = _mock_insert_client(written_rows=2, summary_extra={"written_bytes": "64"})
+    cursor = Cursor(client)
+
+    rows = [(13, "user_1"), (79, "user_2")]
+    cursor.executemany("INSERT INTO test_table (id, name) VALUES (%s, %s)", rows)
+
+    assert cursor.summary == [summary_dict]
+
+
+def test_executemany_generator_falls_through_to_row_by_row():
+    """A generator passed to executemany falls through to the row-by-row path without raising TypeError."""
+    client = Mock()
+    client.query.return_value = create_mock_query_result([])
+
+    cursor = Cursor(client)
+
+    def row_generator():
+        yield {"id": 1, "name": "user_1"}
+        yield {"id": 2, "name": "user_2"}
+
+    cursor.executemany("INSERT INTO test_table (id, name) VALUES (%(id)s, %(name)s)", row_generator())
+
+    client.insert.assert_not_called()
+    assert client.query.call_count == 2